Theatre for children in the early years of independent theatre

FUKELMAN, MARÍA

Latin American Newsletter of Theatre for children and young audiences

ASSITEJ

Año: 2014 p. 71 - 84

The independent theatre is a new way of doing and of conceptualizing theatre that arises in Buenos Aires in late 1930, of hand of Leónidas Barletta (1902-1975) and his Theatre of the People. Its purpose was to drift apart from three elements: the actor head of company, the commercial businessman and the State. Its birth implied changes on the subject of poetic arts, forms of group organization, ties of management with the public, political militancy and aesthetic theories.As popular theatre, it emerged thinking about how to be accessible to all public with cheap tickets (even at the expense of that the artists were not earning money for their work) and placing the people as the main recipient of its actions. In this sense, the independent theatre of the very first years had a clear pedagogic intention, as it intended to teach the spectators, modify then somehow and invite them to action. Children represent a public´s particular style. The purpose of this work will be then, to search for the independent groups between 1930 and 1969, when these groups began to work for children and how did they do it.